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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Forty children reported missing from UK asylum hotels still not found

silhouettes of two children
In 2023 it emerged that more than 440 unaccompanied asylum-seeking children had gone missing from Home Office hotels. Photograph: AlexLinch/Getty/iStockphoto

Forty children who went missing from hotels housing asylum seekers in the UK have still not been found, according to a parliamentary report.

Ministers are facing calls from MPs and peers to explain what they are doing to locate the group, two of whom are believed to still be under 18. The figure emerged in a report on Thursday by the joint committee on human rights on how the social care system is failing young adults.

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